Just as the EGP is within sight of completing its work, the University of California, Berkeley has firmly stated that it will cancel its sponsorship of the project unless new funding from previously untapped sources is found. Learn more

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The Emma Goldman Papers to Receive Hamer-Kegan Award

We are happy to announce that The Emma Goldman Papers will receive the 2014 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer-Kegan Award!

The Hamer-Kegan Award is given by the Society of American Archivists Foundation in recognition of an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose. read more.

Emma Goldman was Gansta! A Conversation with Candace Falk, Director of the Emma Goldman Papers Project

Candace Falk, the director and editor of The Emma Goldman Papers, was interviewed by the Journal of Women's History of Binghamton University. Read the full interview below, full of fascinating anecdotes on the serendipitous discovery of Goldman’s actual letters to the devotion required to maintain the project in the face of censorship and antagonism:
http://bingdev.binghamton.edu/jwh/?page_id=1084

Publication Announcement

VIDEO: Emma Goldman: Light and Shadows 1910-1916

Announcing the forthcoming release of the third of the four volume series Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years (1890-1919). Volume Three Light and Shodows (1910-1916) in November 2012, and Volume Four The War Years (1917-1919) forthcoming, both published by Stanford University Press. The first two volumes of --Made for America (1890-1901) and Making Speech Free (1902-1909)--updated paperback edition with University of Illinois Press, original hardbacks with University of California Press. The volumes have been widely reviewed and are recommended highly for both the scholarly and general reader alike...read more

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old and noteworthy: quotations from goldman

Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism.
An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate
of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union
organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the
military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her
deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she
continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age,
from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.

Selections from the printed guide to the 69-reel
microfilm collection of Goldman's papers, including
introductory, biographical and bibliographical essays, indexes
to the contents of the collection, and a detailed chronology.
Published by Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1995.

An overview for students exploring the social and political
context of Emma Goldman's work. Uses primary historical
documents to examine issues related to immigration, freedom of
expression, women's rights, anti-militarism, and the art and
culture of social change.

Excerpts from Anarchism and Other Essays(1910), The Social Significance of the Modern
Drama (1914), My Disillusionment in
Russia (1923), and Living My Life(1931). Also featured are electronic texts of published
essays, pamphlets, and speeches.